Marina Abramovic

Studio 360

The self-described “grandmother of performance art” is at the center of the retrospective show “Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Her new project? Sitting silently in the museum’s atrium all day, everyday, for three months. Kerrie Hillman talked with Abramovic as she prepared for perhaps her most ambitious performance yet.

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